söndag 30 juni 2013

If
you watch some video footage of kosher slaughter, you will see that
there is a lot of suffering involved there also, see e.g.: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzaeHfh65hs
; and animals killed ‘kosher’ are also raised up in factory
farm-facilities, involving lots of suffering. However “humanely” we
treat and kill these animals, the amount of animal suffering we cause is
staggering. The animals raised up and slaughtered in
‘kosher’-facitilities don’t want to become killed and exploited by
humans. Can’t we respect their desire to live, can’t we show them love
and compassion. I became a vegan this autumn, since I don’t think it is
ethical to inflict unnecessary suffering and death upon sentient beings
who all value their life, friends and family as much as we value our
life, friends and family.----This is a reply to a person writing: Am already eating kosher, sparing 99% of animal species from torture ------I also wrote: Great that you agree Michael!"Organic",
"free range" and so on. They all end up at the same slaughterhouse.
They all go through great amount of suffering. Some more about the hens
in the “free range”-industry: http://www.abolitionistapproach.com/no-they-dont-dig-cage-free-eggs/

The
question is, is it right to inflict unnecessary suffering upon sentient
animals, who don’t want to be killed by us? All killing of animals
involve suffering. We can easily live a vegan lifestyle. There are
delicious vegan recipes. But most importantly, it is our moral
obligation toward the innocent, defenseless animals not to hurt and
exploit them for “taste”/convenience.----Did
you know how much suffering that is involved in the production of eggs?
In the egg industry all male chicks are ground up alive to death, hens
are usually confined, suffer all their life, and eventually they are
killed. You can cook a vegan tasty poopy seed lime cake without the suffering of eggs and animal products.

We
all claim to care about animals and to regard them as having at least
some moral value. We all claim to agree that it’s wrong to inflict
“unnecessary” suffering and death on animals and--whatever disagreement
we may have about when animal use is necessary—we all agree that the
suffering and death of animals cannot be justified by human pleasure,
amusement, or convenience. However “humanely” we treat and kill these
animals, the amount of animal suffering we cause is staggering. Yet no
one maintains that animal foods are necessary for optimal health.

About me

"“Thanksgiving dinner's sad and thankless. Christmas dinner's dark and blue. When you stop and try to see it From the turkey's point of view.
Sunday dinner isn't sunny. Easter feasts are just bad luck. When you see it from the viewpoint of a chicken or a duck.
Oh how I once loved tuna salad Pork and lobsters, lamb chops too Till I stopped and looked at dinner From the dinner's point of view.”
Shel Silverstein
"Animals do not 'give' their life to us, as the sugar-coated lie would have it . . . They struggle and fight to the last breath, just as we would do if we were in their place." [John Robbins]